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Mayor Eric Adams and police officials took a swipe at a bill pushed by progressives <nypost.com/2024/07/20/us-news/nypds-gang-data-base-needed-more-than-ever-experts/> that would abolish the NYPD’s gang database — saying Monday it’ll make it more difficult for cops to nab violent criminals and prevent shootings.
The mayor, during a press briefing at City Hall, said he didn’t buy left-wing critics’ arguments that the Criminal Group Database <nypost.com/2023/04/30/the-lefts-pro-crime-war-on-the-nypd-gang-database/> amounts to racial profiling since nearly all the gang members ID’d are black and Latino.
“There’s a number they leave out — 96% of the victims of shootings in the city are people of color. Let’s keep them in mind,” Adams said.
Mayor Eric Adams and police officials took a swipe at a bill pushed by progressives <nypost.com/2024/07/20/us-news/nypds-gang-data-base-needed-more-than-ever-experts/> that would abolish the NYPD’s gang database — saying Monday it’ll make it more difficult for cops to nab violent criminals and prevent shootings.
The mayor, during a press briefing at City Hall, said he didn’t buy left-wing critics’ arguments that the Criminal Group Database <nypost.com/2023/04/30/the-lefts-pro-crime-war-on-the-nypd-gang-database/> amounts to racial profiling since nearly all the gang members ID’d are black and Latino.
“There’s a number they leave out — 96% of the victims of shootings in the city are people of color. Let’s keep them in mind,” Adams said.
The mayor volunteered his comments during the opening of his press conference, just as the City Council’s Public Safety Committee wrapped up a hearing on the measure, which is championed by lefty lawmakers and advocates.
NYPD officials said 500 groups are identified as gangs, and that 25% of members in the database are convicted felons, 33% are on parole/probation, 45% have been arrested previously — and about one-third have been busted 20 or more times and one-third have been involved in shootings.
Queens Republican Councilwoman JoAnn Ariola called the bill straight out of “La La Land,” saying that she’s never met a constituent who asked for the gang database to be abolished — though they do want more police officers assigned to their neighborhoods.
“These people aren’t members of the community. They prey on the community,” Ariola said of gang members.
Bronx Democratic Councilwoman Althea Stevens, a sponsor of the bill, said, “I’m in La La land.”
“It seems like racial profiling,” Stevens said.
Mayor Eric Adams and police officials took a swipe at a bill pushed by progressives <nypost.com/2024/07/20/us-news/nypds-gang-data-base-needed-more-than-ever-experts/> that would abolish the NYPD’s gang database — saying Monday it’ll make it more difficult for cops to nab violent criminals and prevent shootings.
The mayor, during a press briefing at City Hall, said he didn’t buy left-wing critics’ arguments that the Criminal Group Database <nypost.com/2023/04/30/the-lefts-pro-crime-war-on-the-nypd-gang-database/> amounts to racial profiling since nearly all the gang members ID’d are black and Latino.
“There’s a number they leave out — 96% of the victims of shootings in the city are people of color. Let’s keep them in mind,” Adams said.
Mayor Eric Adams and police officials took a swipe at a bill pushed by progressives <nypost.com/2024/07/20/us-news/nypds-gang-data-base-needed-more-than-ever-experts/> that would abolish the NYPD’s gang database — saying Monday it’ll make it more difficult for cops to nab violent criminals and prevent shootings.
The mayor, during a press briefing at City Hall, said he didn’t buy left-wing critics’ arguments that the Criminal Group Database <nypost.com/2023/04/30/the-lefts-pro-crime-war-on-the-nypd-gang-database/> amounts to racial profiling since nearly all the gang members ID’d are black and Latino.
“There’s a number they leave out — 96% of the victims of shootings in the city are people of color. Let’s keep them in mind,” Adams said.
The mayor volunteered his comments during the opening of his press conference, just as the City Council’s Public Safety Committee wrapped up a hearing on the measure, which is championed by lefty lawmakers and advocates.
NYPD officials said 500 groups are identified as gangs, and that 25% of members in the database are convicted felons, 33% are on parole/probation, 45% have been arrested previously — and about one-third have been busted 20 or more times and one-third have been involved in shootings.
Queens Republican Councilwoman JoAnn Ariola called the bill straight out of “La La Land,” saying that she’s never met a constituent who asked for the gang database to be abolished — though they do want more police officers assigned to their neighborhoods.
“These people aren’t members of the community. They prey on the community,” Ariola said of gang members.
Bronx Democratic Councilwoman Althea Stevens, a sponsor of the bill, said, “I’m in La La land.”
“It seems like racial profiling,” Stevens said.
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